These days, the exposed nipple has become a sartorial phenomenon. Kate Moss, Rose McGowan, Jennifer Lopez, and Gwyneth Paltrow all helped popularize the bra-free style which continued well into the early aughts. While the decades after saw a few other trailblazers, it wasn’t until the ’90s that stars became comfortable wearing naked dresses on red carpets. Rita Hayworth and Marlene Dietrich rocked the naked look in their films and fashion, despite how conservative the decade was. Kendall Jenner, Florence Pugh, and Emily Ratajkowski are huge fans of the look and have often made headlines for their impeccably-styled sheer ‘fits.Īs early as the ’40s, however, brazen Hollywood stars were already pioneering the movement. Since then, countless celebs have supported the #freethenipple crusade online and off, donning the chicest of nipple-forward ensembles. She argued that, like men, women should also be able to reveal their nips IRL (and on social media.)

So much so that in 2012, filmmaker Lina Esco pioneered the # FreetheNipple movement. Sixties hippyish ideals and '70s loose silhouettes (not to mention disco fever) embraced bralessness, suggesting a blithe, undone glamour that was epitomized by the likes of Jane Birkin, Bianca Jagger, and Marisa Berenson.Allow me to point out the obvious: showing nipple shouldn’t be contentious. To others, it became a new kind of fashion statement. In this context, a nipple glimpsed beneath clothing could be read as a fierce refusal of propriety.

The 1960s did spur a rejection of bras within the women’s liberation movement though, given their discomfort and uneasy association with patriarchal restriction. Although protestors outside the event did throw items which they saw as symbolic of female oppression – including bras, makeup, and high heels – into a 'freedom trash can', they were never set alight as often alleged. However, this is a tired cliché rather than accurate history.

Protests at the Miss America pageant in 1968 have since entered the realms of the mythic, marking the moment when bra-burning became associated with the feminist movement. Ping forward several centuries and the nipple took on another meaning.

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